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Highlander

Highlander Dates : 1992 - 1998
119 episodes of 42 min
First broadcasting : 1er octobre 1993
Creator(s) : Gregory Widen
Producer(s) : Bill PANZER et Peter S. DAVIS
Music : Queen
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Synopsis

Born in the year 1592 in the highlands of Scotland, it is immortal. His name: Duncan MC Leod.

His life is a quest. He goes through the years without aging.

He fights the other Immortals in order to win the "Prize". Good and evil clash.

They fight according to specific rules and always at the sword. Each winner, cutting the head of his opponent, recovers his strength; It is "Quickening".

"At the end, it can only be left" ...

Highlander is an American television series which was broadcast between 1992 and 1998. The series was based on the 1986 Highlander film, which itself was based on an original story by Gregory Widen.

The series features a main character, Duncan Macleod, who is an immortal. In the series, immortals are human beings who cannot die of old age and who are intended to fight against each other until only one of them remains. The latter will then be crowned as being "elected" and will receive all the powers and knowledge accumulated by the other immortals over the centuries.

MacLeod is a Scottish immortal who has lived many lives over the centuries, by posing for different people in different places in the world. In the series, he became an ancient dealer in New York, where he met and became a friend with a police officer, Richie Ryan. Together, they fight other immortals and try to survive in a world that considers them as strange and dangerous beings.

The series was very popular and has generated several spin-offs, including a film, novels and comics. She was also widely praised by criticism for her complex intrigue and well -developed characters.

The Actors

Adrian Paul - Duncan Mc Leod

Adrian Paul


(Duncan Mc Leod)

Stan Kirsch - Richie Ryan

Stan Kirsch


(Richie Ryan)

Peter Wingfield - Methos

Peter Wingfield


(Methos)

Photos

Photos Highlander n_0 Photos Highlander n_1

Trivia

Episode 5.1, "One Minute to Midnight", was originally filmed and aired as episode 4.22 in Europe.

Episode 5.19, "Double Jeopardy" was originally filmed and aired as Episode 4.19 in Europe.

Episode 5.2, "Prophecy," was originally aired filmed and aired as episode 5.1 in Europe.

Many of the episodes of the series have French actors with their voices redubbed by Vancouver-based voice actors Gary Chalk and Janyse Jaud.

The series directly follows the feature film Highlander (1986), but with a slight twist: according the series, Connor MacLeod was not the last Immortal and did not win the Prize. In fact, 'Christopher Lambert' guest stars in the pilot episode to pass the baton to series lead Adrian Paul.

Some of the clips used in the title sequence were taken from the movie Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).

The season five finale, "Archangel", was originally shot with a cliffhanger ending set 20 years in the future, when MacLeod is finally prepared to defeat Ahriman. The sixth season was planned to happen in the future, but was deemed too dark early on and was finally scrapped when the budget was sliced.

Jim Byrnes, who plays Joe Dawson, also contributed many songs to the show's soundtrack. Some of these can frequently be heard as background music during scenes in Joe's bar.

The character 'Duncan MacLeod' was ranked #11 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" (1 August 2004 issue).

Plans for a spin-off series led to a group of sixth-season episodes focusing on a new female Immortal (a "back-door pilot" in industry-speak). None of these characters caught on, and the established character of Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) became the lead for "Highlander: The Raven" (1998).

A late fifth season episode, which partly depicted a fictional inspiration for Frankenstein, used the book's subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus".

Werner Stocker had already died of cancer before the end of the first season, so that episode (which opened with his character's murder) edited together existing footage from earlier episodes for the first scenes.

The series was originally planned to follow the film, with Connor Macleod in the lead role, to be played by Adrian Paul. Paul, however, wanted the freedom to create his own characterization, and to avoid direct comparisons to Christopher Lambert, so the writers agreed to create a new character.

SPOILER: Early in the second season, Alexandra Vandernoot told the producers she didn't want to be on the show anymore - which lead the writers to kill her off in "The Darkness".

Filming

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